Videos

Arbor Collective – Scotty Vine Full Part

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I just saw this video via Snowboarder Magazine - more goodness to help get excited about the upcoming winter. So much creativity in this and more backflips than some full videos!

Apparat – Song Of Los Official Video

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One of my favorite songs on the new Apparat album The Devil’s Walk is the second track, Song of Los. The video is something I could watch over and over as the emotion of the song is fit into a video showing a woman controlling and interacting with a robot she built. I’ll need to watch this a few more times to really try and get the meaning – it’s been a long week and my mind is drained – but I really like seeing somewhat lo-fi videos like this that prove you don’t need an insane budget to create something highly emotive and unique.

Bon Iver – Holocene Video & Iceland Vacation

What incredible timing… Less than 24 hours before my fiance and I leave for a week long trip to Iceland, I came across this amazing video for the song Holocene from the new Bon Iver album. Directed by Nabil Elderkin, the video shows a wide range of Icelandic landscapes that I am so excited to be seeing soon in person. I’ve wanted to go to Iceland for years – I blame Sigur Ros – and we’ll be arriving in just over 24 hours. We are renting a car to drive around the country’s Ring Road that travels about 830 miles. We’ve got lodging set up for each night, and no real plans other than to see what the travel company is suggesting that we see. I feel like this video is spoiling the surprise, but we’ll be there soon enough.

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The Art of Flight – Metal Trailer

As summer wears on and I get to daydreaming more and more about winter and another hopefully great snowboard season, it doesn’t help when a brand new trailer for the upcoming Travis Rice / Red Bull / Quicksilver movie The Art of Flight is released. The riding and filming just look jaw dropping. This movie is going to be amazing and I’m really hoping it shows at a theater somewhere in Chicago. However, it looks like we’ll be missing out here – midwest snowboarders get no love sometimes.

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Forum Snowboarding – Vacation Teaser

As the summer temperatures keep at a steady 80 – 90 degrees here in Chicago, I’m getting anxious for winter and the start of snowboarding season – which is sadly six months away. Aside from actually snowboarding, I’m not alone in being excited about the new videos that will be coming out in the Fall, one of which is Forum’s Vacation. The trailer comes with the requisite goofy music, following up Fuck It’s trailer song (Playing with the Boys, by Kenny Loggins) with Just Like Paradise by David Lee Roth. Plenty of good riding within and it’s bound to be a good followup to Fuck It and Forever.

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The Art of Flight Official Movie Trailer

I cannot wait to see this newest movie from Red Bull including Travis Rice, John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Scotty Lago, Jake Blauvelt, Nicolas Muller, Gigi Ruf, DCP and Pat Moore. The filming looks phenomenal; it’s got to be one of the biggest budget snowboard films made in recent years. Too bad we have to wait until September 2011, but with any luck this will show in theaters. I highly suggest expanding the video above and watching full screen.

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M83 Meets Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

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I just found this over on another site tonight and it blew me away. M83 are by far one of my favorite bands out there, and seeing this song – one of their best – merged with the pivotal “arrival of aliens” scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind is just brilliant. The emotional tone to the song goes so well with this scene. It’s just stunning really.

Underground Urban Exploration

UNDERCITY by Andrew Wonder on Vimeo

I have been fascinated by underground exploration of urban environments for as long as I knew there was something below us other than dirt and rock. Riding the subway here in Chicago always leaves me wishing I could get off the train inside the tunnels and see where the escape doors go and what the side tunnels lead to. As a kid we used to sneak down into neighborhood sewer pipes and crawl under the streets and hide out in the gutters, always wondering how much further we could go and what else we could discover. Years later I can still remember the thrill, but I doubt it’s anything next to what people experience when exploring a place like the NYC subway system. I’ve read plenty about abandoned tunnels being discovered over the years and people living in the unused and in operation tunnels, and it’s all just pretty fascinating. Undercity, by Andrew Wonder, has been making the blogs over the past couple of weeks, so if you haven’t seen it I highly suggest it. I’d give anything to have some adventures like this.

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Mogwai New Paths to Helicon 1 Live

New Paths to Helicon 1 has always been a favorite song of mine. Call me a fatalist, but back when the airlines would actually let you listen to headphones during takeoff and landing, I’d usually be listening to this song during every takeoff and landing. There’s something immensely beautiful in the buildup and the explosion of the big part of the song. Something about this song always made me feel content with a tragic disaster – should it happen – because I really think there’s a power in certain songs to just totally engulf you in emotion and distraction from life. Fortunately, all three times I’ve seen Mogwai live they’ve played this song.

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Transworld Snowboarding In Color Trailer

I’ve not picked this video up yet but plan to at some point. The riding looks good and it seems right on par with the Forum and Absinthe videos I’ve grabbed recently.

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